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It looks like hatching shinies relates to your trainer ID tag and that it must match a certain Pokemon in order to hatch a shiny successfully. I don't know the full details, but sorry if this was brought up already.

It looks like hatching shinies relates to your trainer ID tag and that it must match a certain Pokemon in order to hatch a shiny successfully. I don't know the full details, but sorry if this was brought up already.

I am confused. Can you please explain this to me? So how do I know which pokemon hatches shiny for me?

It looks like hatching shinies relates to your trainer ID tag and that it must match a certain Pokemon in order to hatch a shiny successfully. I don't know the full details, but sorry if this was brought up already.

That has been the case since Gen III, but I am surprised that people are actually abusing it like ten years later.

Originally Posted by Seraphina

I am confused. Can you please explain this to me? So how do I know which pokemon hatches shiny for me?

You need to know your Secret ID and the personality value of your Pokémon, then perform bitwise xor operation with your Trainer ID and secret ID, another xor operation with the first byte word of the personality value and second byte word of the personality value, and then xor the two results. If it is less than 8(in previous generations) or 16(in this generation). Bulbapedia has an example on how. In order to find out them, you need to setup this system.

Last edited by Trainer Yusuf; 17th November 2013 at 8:21 PM.

This is Turtwig, he was the most under appreciatted starter in Diamond & Pearl. If you picked Turtwig as your starter, put this in your sig . Started by Dax-360

Originally Posted by Teshub

I also read from the bulbagarden thread about the movie that Zorua impersonates Dawn and tries to show Dawn's butt to Ash. Fanservice, foreshadowing?

Originally Posted by Locormus

This show is called Pokemon, not Pochaman.. although that sounds almost the same..

So today, while in a Friend Safari farming Frogadiers something strange happened...
I encountered a Shiny Quagsire.
Now this isn't the strange part.
A hour or so later, I encountered another Shiny Quagsire. Perfect Attack and Defense like the other one, but a different nature and different stats everywhere else...

Now Quagsire happens to be one of the Pokemon that people can catch in my Friend Safari. Is it possible that Pokemon that can be found in your own Friend Safari have an elevated chance of being Shiny in your game?

So today, while in a Friend Safari farming Frogadiers something strange happened...
I encountered a Shiny Quagsire.
Now this isn't the strange part.
A hour or so later, I encountered another Shiny Quagsire. Perfect Attack and Defense like the other one, but a different nature and different stats everywhere else...

Now Quagsire happens to be one of the Pokemon that people can catch in my Friend Safari. Is it possible that Pokemon that can be found in your own Friend Safari have an elevated chance of being Shiny in your game?

I have trouble believing this. I've only ever found two other shinies my entire history of playing Pokemon games (been playing since Red/Blue were released), a Sligoo about 3 weeks ago and a Diglet back in Soul Silver. Really difficult to believe finding two shinies of the same species within an hour of each other is coincidence.

I have trouble believing this. I've only ever found two other shinies my entire history of playing Pokemon games (been playing since Red/Blue were released), a Sligoo about 3 weeks ago and a Diglet back in Soul Silver. Really difficult to believe finding two shinies of the same species within an hour of each other is coincidence.

No, dude. You just got lucky. Lady Luck is a lady who shows up at very irregular times. She happened to visit you twice.

Admittedly, there is a lot of supposed luck in the Friend Safari, as people are constantly getting them there, but that's not to say the Friend Safari necessarily has increased shiny odds. I myself managed to get a Machop and Bidoof within an hour or so of each other, and that was back in Platinum, so it could very well just be good luck on your end. 1/4096 is already a better chance than last Gen's non-Shiny Charm odds, after all.

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part of why people are finding so many shinies in the FS is probably the fact that that's where most people are catching their Pokemon, seeing as how that's the only way to get a good number of Pokemon and HAs as of now, as well as a good place to start if you want to breed good IVs onto things

part of why people are finding so many shinies in the FS is probably the fact that that's where most people are catching their Pokemon, seeing as how that's the only way to get a good number of Pokemon and HAs as of now, as well as a good place to start if you want to breed good IVs onto things

exactly. I found four shinies in friend safari's so far, two of them were charmeleons (what a coincidence... im a charizard queen...)

there was a way i actually got them to pop up and that was to fight them constantly (or catch them constantly too) and they will pop up in no time.

part of why people are finding so many shinies in the FS is probably the fact that that's where most people are catching their Pokemon, seeing as how that's the only way to get a good number of Pokemon and HAs as of now, as well as a good place to start if you want to breed good IVs onto things

Well, there is also large crowd of people there solely because of the supposed better odds there. They've also seen great luck in the Friend Safari, but this draws more people there to look for a shiny to see for themselves. And this cycle seems to continue because they are indeed finding shinies relatively quickly. It is tougher to tell if the odds there are any different in the FS or not, but the empirical evidence suggests that there may perhaps be better odds there. We still can't say anything either way with just that evidence, though, since the amount of people hunting in the FS far exceeds the amount hunting outside of it.

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Getting Elektross:
If you go to Kilode city, someone with a random building with ask you some questions about the ability "Levitate".When you are done, he wi challenge you to a battle and his lwst pokemon is an ELEKTROSS but if you can only ge5 this by having the catching trainer's pokemon hack.I discover this a long time ago.If you want more info message me.

Getting Elektross:
If you go to Kilode city, someone with a random building with ask you some questions about the ability "Levitate".When you are done, he wi challenge you to a battle and his lwst pokemon is an ELEKTROSS but if you can only ge5 this by having the catching trainer's pokemon hack.I discover this a long time ago.If you want more info message me.

We know
Several trainers in the post game have Pokemon you can't get normally in Kalos.

I guess we're not getting any more egg move data until the official guide releases.

As much as I want to believe that Electrike doesn't only have a single new egg move of extremely limited use, the fact that someone on 2chan has apparently been testing every single move that's currently sketchable using an army of Smeargle on various Field egg group Pokemon and found that some of them indeed only got a single new egg move despite being rather mediocre (Like Snubbull) is making me feel doubtful...

I have a REALLY hard time believing the Friend Safari doesn't have higher shiny probabilities. At least some of them. Because I've encountered 2 shiny Kirlia in 2 hours in a specific one, and stopped until the next day and encountered another one after 15 minutes. Also got a shiny Oddish in another one, so yeah. It might depend on the Friend Code or some stupid stuff like this but I'm fairly sure some Safaris have a bigger probability than some.